The joy was short lived however, because just after that it was announced that Jim Kelly's cancer had returned, with the Bills iconic Hall of Fame quarterback publicly asking for prayers in his battle with the serious disease.

"As fans of a small market team, we love seeing them in national news, but just not under these circumstances," said, Reid, who noted the plot of this turbulent off-season will only thicken amid all the speculation about who will step forward to purchase the franchise.

"A lot of fans, myself included, were disappointed that we weren't the subject of the Draft Day movie. Instead, it seems like we were able to trade it out for a real life soap opera," Reid said.

"I tell everyone around here to control what you can control," said head coach Doug Marrone on Tuesday, when asked about keeping the team focused amid all the off-season turmoil. "If we don't and we start thinking about the things we can't control and get sidetracked, that will lose our focus and that will hurt us in winning football games."

Even the announcement regarding Marrone's cancerous mole was somewhat fumbled, creating a few hours of more off-season drama.

The statement came after the Bills (apparently inadvertently) posted an article from their website announcing that Marrone was diagnosed with "BLANK" cancer. The article was quickly removed.

This forced the team to release another statement Wednesday that said: "We are continuing today to discuss the unfortunate situation we experienced last night with our website and will address the matter internally."

"The biggest bright spot of this off-season has come amid some of the low points," said Matt Suboda, founder of the Buffalo Fan Alliance. "That is seeing how the fan base has really rallied around a lot of the adversity which has surrounded the team…the Buffalo Bills have the most loyal fan base in the NFL, and looking at what we've gone through this off-season as far as adversity around the team, how can you argue with that?"

However, not all of the off-season events and activities surrounding the team have been adverse.